Liu Zhao Xuan is a chief of the Legislative Yuan (a Taiwan parlimentary body ?). A friend passed me some his sayings recently in PowerPoint format. I have trimmed, translated and change them to simplified forms. Here are some of the Liu Zhao Xuan’s wise cracks, which can be really imaginative at times:

Wang Gungwu

If you don't have a sense of the past, your future will be diminished. Knowing where you come from, where your roots are, and all those great - and terrible - things that happened in the past, strengthens your identity